Store removes sign after angry tweets

A SIGN put up by retailer Carpet Right in Botley Road, Oxford, was taken down yesterday after angry residents took to Twitter to criticise the shop.

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One resident described the retailer as the “villains” of the flooding crisis for placing a sign outside the shop which said that parking was for customers only and any vehicles left in the car park all day could be “removed without warning”.

But a spokesman for Carpet Right said: “We put the signs up when Seacourt was closed because it was rammed full. We were not being mean-spirited and it was made clear that residents who were flooded were able to use the car park.” Carpet Right remained closed yesterday.

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